Jefferson left the senate because Mississippi seceded from the union. His final speech in the senate is at <http://www.garyrutledge.com/Documents/JeffersonDavisSpeech.htm>.
== == Mississippi.
Adelbert Ames won Jefferson Davis' Senate seat in 1870. It had remained vacant since the state of Mississippi seceded from the Union in January 1861.
After Jefferson Davis' resignation from the U.S. Senate in September 1851, he was succeeded by Democrat John J. McRae. After Davis' withdrawal from the Senate in January 1861, his seat remained vacant until February 1870, after Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. The seat was filled at that time by Republican Adelbert Ames.
Jefferson Davis was a Democratic senator from Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis was a Democratic senator from Mississippi.
jefferson davis began his schooling in a log schoolhouse in woodville mississippi.
Senator for Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi.
Senator for Mississippi
Jefferson Davis was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, the U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America.
The web address of the Beauvoir Jefferson Davis Home is: http://www.beauvoir.org